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In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
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Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.
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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
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You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
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Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.
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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
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You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
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The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
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She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.
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